CVE-2014-7816

mediumpriority · track · 39EPSS 0.251 · 98 %ileexploit · functionalEUUS

grimoire priorityP1 · Urgent

Exploitable?

Public exploit

2 exploits · functional

Likely / severe?

25.1% (98th) EPSS

CVSS 5 · medium

Is it mine?

7 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd · osv

EPSS · scored 2026-10-28

Directory traversal vulnerability in JBoss Undertow 1.0.x before 1.0.17, 1.1.x before 1.1.0.CR5, and 1.2.x before 1.2.0.Beta3, when running on Windows, allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in a resource URI.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

5.0

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.05mediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 10 · impact 2.9

v2.04.8mediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N/E:Fsecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-22USprimaryCWE-22US

exploits (2)

Public proof-of-concept and weaponised exploit code.

auxiliary/scanner/http/wildfly_traversalWildFly Directory Traversalfunctional · metasploit
shoucheng3/undertow-io__undertow_CVE-2014-7816_1-0-16-Finalshoucheng3/undertow-io__undertow_CVE-2014-7816_1-0-16-FinalPoC · poc_in_github

affected products (7)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
redhat undertow≤ 1.0.16nvdUScpe:2.3:a:redhat:undertow:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat undertow≤ 1.1.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:redhat:undertow:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat undertow≤ 1.2.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:redhat:undertow:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Maven io.undertow:undertow-core1.0.0 → 1.0.17osvUSpkg:maven/io.undertow/undertow-core
Maven io.undertow:undertow-core1.1.0.Beta1 → 1.1.0.CR5osvUSpkg:maven/io.undertow/undertow-core
Maven io.undertow:undertow-core1.2.0.Beta1 → 1.2.0.Beta3osvUSpkg:maven/io.undertow/undertow-core

advisories (1)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

GHSA-h6p6-fc4w-cqhxImproper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory in JBoss Undertow2022-05-17ghsa · osvUS
Directory traversal vulnerability in JBoss Undertow 1.0.x before 1.0.17, 1.1.x before 1.1.0.CR5, and 1.2.x before 1.2.0.Beta3, when running on Windows, allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in a resource URI.

also known as (3)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd nvd osv NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2014-12-01modified 2026-06-17

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references (15)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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